Agave sisalana

瓊麻

naturalized

Agave sisalana Perr. ex Enghlm.

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典藏標本

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Enghlm., Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 314. pl. 2-4. 1875. (Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis)

Masam., Short Flora of Formosa 274. 1936. (Short Fl. Formos., 最新台灣植物總名錄)

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Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh, Taiwania 55(2): 156. 2010.
Ciou & Pong, Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 64. 2008. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan, 台灣客家民族植物圖鑑篇)
Lu, Ou & Lu, Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 5: 163. 2001. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan, 台灣樹木解說)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed., 台灣樹木誌第二版)

shrub-herb

Subshrubs or perennial herbs; stem simple, 0.6-1 m tall, densely leafy.
Leaves sword-shaped, 1-1.8 m long, 10-15 cm wide, dark green, more or less pruinose, rather rigid, foetid when bruised, apex acute to acuminate; margins with shallow-grooved spines, prickles absent.
Scape arising from center of rosette, 5-8 m tall, much branched upward, densely flowered; flowers erect, 5-6 cm long, green to yellowish green, often containing much nectar, very foetid in the evening; perianth tube 1-1.8 cm long; segments oblong, 3-4 cm long, with a tuft of hairs on the inner side; stamens 6, filaments inserted above middle of the perianth tube; accrescent during anthesis.
Capsules subglobose.

台灣 : introduced to Taiwan in 1890, widely cultivated in the southern tip of the island, sometimes escaping.
世界 : Native country not known with certainty.